UNIQLO Announces Next Step in Its Expansion Plans for Belgium

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UNIQLO Announces Next Step in its Expansion Plans for Belgium

New Store to Open in Brussels in Fall 2020

27 February 2020, Brussels, Belgium - Global apparel retailer UNIQLO today announces that it will open its second store in Brussels, its fourth store in Belgium, during Fall 2020. The newly built store will be located on the 4-10 Chaussée d’Ixelles, a prominent area overlooking the Porte de Namur, and offer apparel for women, men, kids and babies over two floors. Known as the Elite House, the site has been completely rebuilt respecting the original façade. With a total sales area of approximately 1,300 square meters, it will be the company’s second store in Brussels.

Kaman Leung, newly appointed Chief Operating Officer of UNIQLO Belgium, commented on today's announcement: “We are very pleased to be adding a new UNIQLO store in Brussels and the fourth one in Belgium. Looking at the welcome we have received from our customers in our downtown store at Place de la Monnaie, we are very happy to be opening a new store in a different, yet very dynamic part of the city, and to be offering our unique LifeWear based on innovative, high-quality everyday clothing that is universal in design, to the people in and around the Porte de Namur.”

UNIQLO Brand and LifeWear UNIQLO aims to provide clothing that is designed to make everyone’s life better. It is simple, high quality, everyday clothing with a practical sense of beauty – ingenious in detail, thought through with life’s needs in mind, and always evolving. This unique philosophy - known as LifeWear - is particularly appreciated among Belgian customers, with hero products such as Ultra Light Down jackets, BLOCKTECH Coats, 1 Extra Fine Merino and Cashmere sweaters, HEATTECH and Jeans.

New Store Overview Store name: UNIQLO Porte de Namur Address: Elite House, 4-10 Chaussée d’Ixelles, 1050 Ixelles Sales area: 1,300 square meters over two floors (ground and basement) Opening date: Planned for Fall 2020, with more details to be announced at a later date

UNIQLO entered the Belgian market in October 2015 with the opening of a first store on the Meir, Antwerp’s popular shopping mile. Since then, it has opened in Wijnegem Shopping Center in March 2016 followed by a first store in Brussels, located at Place de la Monnaie, a year later. With the planned expansion, the brand continues to strengthen its presence across Europe where it currently operates over 90 stores in 10 countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Russia and the UK.

For more information, please visit www.uniqlo.com and follow us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/uniqlo.belgium and on instagram at @uniqlo_be.

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About UNIQLO LifeWear Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual’s style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people’s lives.

About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. UNIQLO is the largest of eight brands in the Fast Retailing Group, the others being GU, Theory, Helmut Lang, PLST (Plus T), Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam and J Brand. With global sales of approximately 2.2905 trillion yen for the 2019 fiscal year ending August 31, 2019 (US $21.53 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2019 rate of $1 = 106.4 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.

UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world's most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a global brand. Today the company has more than 2,200 stores in 25 markets including Japan. In alphabetical order, the other markets are Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. U.S. and Vietnam. In addition, UNIQLO established a social business in Bangladesh together with the Grameen Bank in 2010, and today there are several Grameen-UNIQLO stores in Dhaka.

With a corporate statement committed to changing clothes, changing conventional wisdom and change the world, Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere. For more information about UNIQLO and Fast Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com.

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